The difference between Republicans and democrats

[rightwinger]

Data confirms a generational realignment showing that Democrats are increasingly the party of the upper-middle class, college-educated voters, and the wealthiest congressional districts, while Republicans have made significant inroads among working-class voters. However, both parties remain complex coalitions rather than single-class monoliths. [1, 2, 3, 4]
The Shift to the Upper-Middle Class

• Income Trends: Analyses of voting patterns and campaign finance reveal that upper-income voters—particularly those earning over \(\$100,000\) annually and those residing in dense, highly educated metropolitan areas—now lean Democratic.
• Educational Divide: The Democratic base has increasingly consolidated around college-educated and "symbolic economy" workers, while the GOP has captured a larger share of non-college-educated and lower-income voters.
• Congressional Districts: Many of the highest-income and most highly taxed districts in the
• country, such as those in Silicon Valley, urban centers, and affluent suburbs, are safely held by Democrats. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Doesn’t change the fact that Democrats pass bills for the poor and working class

 

[j-mac]

Doesn’t change the fact that Democrats pass bill for the poor and working class

That hasn’t been true since Bill Clinton. And even he had to moderate in his second term

 

[rightwinger]

That hasn’t been true since Bill Clinton. And even he had to moderate in his second term

Ok
Name your Republican bills and I will do the same

 

[j-mac]

Ok
Name your Republican bills and I will do the same

Before the China Virus invaded our shores, we built the world’s most prosperous economy.

• America gained 7 million new jobs – more than three times government experts’ projections.
• Middle-Class family income increased nearly $6,000 – more than five times the gains during the entire previous administration.
• The unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent, the lowest in a half-century.
• Achieved 40 months in a row with more job openings than job-hirings.
• More Americans reported being employed than ever before – nearly 160 million.
• Jobless claims hit a nearly 50-year low.
• The number of people claiming unemployment insurance as a share of the population hit its lowest on record.
• Incomes rose in every single metro area in the United States for the first time in nearly 3 decades.

Delivered a future of greater promise and opportunity for citizens of all backgrounds.

• Unemployment rates for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, veterans, individuals with disabilities, and those without a high school diploma all reached record lows.
• Unemployment for women hit its lowest rate in nearly 70 years.
• Lifted nearly 7 million people off of food stamps.
• Poverty rates for African Americans and Hispanic Americans reached record lows.
• Income inequality fell for two straight years, and by the largest amount in over a decade.
• The bottom 50 percent of American households saw a 40 percent increase in net worth.
• Wages rose fastest for low-income and blue collar workers – a 16 percent pay increase.
• African American homeownership increased from 41.7 percent to 46.4 percent.

Brought jobs, factories, and industries back to the USA.

• Created more than 1.2 million manufacturing and construction jobs.
• Put in place policies to bring back supply chains from overseas.
• Small business optimism broke a 35-year old record in 2018.

Hit record stock market numbers and record 401ks.

• The DOW closed above 20,000 for the first time in 2017 and topped 30,000 in 2020.
• The S&P 500 and NASDAQ have repeatedly notched record highs.

Rebuilding and investing in rural America.

• Signed an Executive Order on Modernizing the Regulatory Framework for Agricultural Biotechnology Products, which is bringing innovative new technologies to market in American farming and agriculture.
• Strengthened America’s rural economy by investing over $1.3 billion through the Agriculture Department’s ReConnect Program to bring high-speed broadband infrastructure to rural America.

Achieved a record-setting economic comeback by rejecting blanket lockdowns.

• An October 2020 Gallup survey found 56 percent of Americans said they were better off during a pandemic than four years prior.
• During the third quarter of 2020, the economy grew at a rate of 33.1 percent – the most rapid GDP growth ever recorded.
• Since coronavirus lockdowns ended, the economy has added back over 12 million jobs, more than half the jobs lost.
• Jobs have been recovered 23 times faster than the previous administration’s recovery.
• Unemployment fell to 6.7 percent in December, from a pandemic peak of 14.7 percent in April – beating expectations of well over 10 percent unemployment through the end of 2020.
• Under the previous administration, it took 49 months for the unemployment rate to fall from 10 percent to under 7 percent compared to just 3 months for the Trump Administration.
• Since April, the Hispanic unemployment rate has fallen by 9.6 percent, Asian-American unemployment by 8.6 percent, and Black American unemployment by 6.8 percent.
• 80 percent of small businesses are now open, up from just 53 percent in April.
• Small business confidence hit a new high.
• Homebuilder confidence reached an all-time high, and home sales hit their highest reading since December 2006.
• Manufacturing optimism nearly doubled.
• Household net worth rose $7.4 trillion in Q2 2020 to $112 trillion, an all-time high.
  • Home prices hit an all-time record high.
  • The United States rejected crippling lockdowns that crush the economy and inflict countless public health harms and instead safely reopened its economy.
  • Business confidence is higher in America than in any other G7 or European Union country.
  • Stabilized America’s financial markets with the establishment of a number of Treasury Department supported facilities at the Federal Reserve.

• Massive Deregulation​

  Ended the regulatory assault on American Businesses and Workers.
  
  • Instead of 2-for-1, we eliminated 8 old regulations for every 1 new regulation adopted.
  • Provided the average American household an extra $3,100 every year.
  • Reduced the direct cost of regulatory compliance by $50 billion, and will reduce costs by an additional $50 billion in FY 2020 alone.
  • Removed nearly 25,000 pages from the Federal Register – more than any other president. The previous administration added over 16,000 pages.
  • Established the Governors’ Initiative on Regulatory Innovation to reduce outdated regulations at the state, local, and tribal levels.
  • Signed an executive order to make it easier for businesses to offer retirement plans.
  • Signed two executive orders to increase transparency in Federal agencies and protect Americans and their small businesses from administrative abuse.
  • Modernized the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for the first time in over 40 years.
  • Reduced approval times for major infrastructure projects from 10 or more years down to 2 years or less.
  • Helped community banks by signing legislation that rolled back costly provisions of Dodd-Frank.
  • Established the White House Council on Eliminating Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing to bring down housing costs.
  • Removed regulations that threatened the development of a strong and stable internet.
  • Eased and simplified restrictions on rocket launches, helping to spur commercial investment in space projects.
  • Published a whole-of-government strategy focused on ensuring American leadership in automated vehicle technology.
  • Streamlined energy efficiency regulations for American families and businesses, including preserving affordable lightbulbs, enhancing the utility of showerheads, and enabling greater time savings with dishwashers.
  • Removed unnecessary regulations that restrict the seafood industry and impede job creation.
  • Modernized the Department of Agriculture’s biotechnology regulations to put America in the lead to develop new technologies.
  • Took action to suspend regulations that would have slowed our response to COVID-19, including lifting restrictions on manufacturers to more quickly produce ventilators.
  • Successfully rolled back burdensome regulatory overreach.
    
    • Rescinded the previous administration’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, which would have abolished zoning for single-family housing to build low-income, federally subsidized apartments.
    • Issued a final rule on the Fair Housing Act’s disparate impact standard.
    • Eliminated the Waters of the United States Rule and replaced it with the Navigable Waters Protection Rule, providing relief and certainty for farmers and property owners.
    • Repealed the previous administration’s costly fuel economy regulations by finalizing the Safer Affordable Fuel Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles rule, which will make cars more affordable, and lower the price of new vehicles by an estimated $2,200.
  • Americans now have more money in their pockets.
    
    • Deregulation had an especially beneficial impact on low-income Americans who pay a much higher share of their incomes for overregulation.
    • Cut red tape in the healthcare industry, providing Americans with more affordable healthcare and saving Americans nearly 10 percent on prescription drugs.
    • Deregulatory efforts yielded savings to the medical community an estimated $6.6 billion – with a reduction of 42 million hours of regulatory compliance work through 2021.
    • Removed government barriers to personal freedom and consumer choice in healthcare.
    • Once fully in effect, 20 major deregulatory actions undertaken by the Trump Administration are expected to save American consumers and businesses over $220 billion per year.
    • Signed 16 pieces of deregulatory legislation that will result in a $40 billion increase in annual real incomes.

And much more to be found here,

Trump Administration Accomplishments – The White House

trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov

Your turn

 

[rightwinger]

Before the China Virus invaded our shores, we built the world’s most prosperous economy.

• America gained 7 million new jobs – more than three times government experts’ projections.
• Middle-Class family income increased nearly $6,000 – more than five times the gains during the entire previous administration.
• The unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent, the lowest in a half-century.
• Achieved 40 months in a row with more job openings than job-hirings.
• More Americans reported being employed than ever before – nearly 160 million.
• Jobless claims hit a nearly 50-year low.
• The number of people claiming unemployment insurance as a share of the population hit its lowest on record.
• Incomes rose in every single metro area in the United States for the first time in nearly 3 decades.

Delivered a future of greater promise and opportunity for citizens of all backgrounds.

• Unemployment rates for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, veterans, individuals with disabilities, and those without a high school diploma all reached record lows.
• Unemployment for women hit its lowest rate in nearly 70 years.
• Lifted nearly 7 million people off of food stamps.
• Poverty rates for African Americans and Hispanic Americans reached record lows.
• Income inequality fell for two straight years, and by the largest amount in over a decade.
• The bottom 50 percent of American households saw a 40 percent increase in net worth.
• Wages rose fastest for low-income and blue collar workers – a 16 percent pay increase.
• African American homeownership increased from 41.7 percent to 46.4 percent.

Brought jobs, factories, and industries back to the USA.

• Created more than 1.2 million manufacturing and construction jobs.
• Put in place policies to bring back supply chains from overseas.
• Small business optimism broke a 35-year old record in 2018.

Hit record stock market numbers and record 401ks.

• The DOW closed above 20,000 for the first time in 2017 and topped 30,000 in 2020.
• The S&P 500 and NASDAQ have repeatedly notched record highs.

Rebuilding and investing in rural America.

• Signed an Executive Order on Modernizing the Regulatory Framework for Agricultural Biotechnology Products, which is bringing innovative new technologies to market in American farming and agriculture.
• Strengthened America’s rural economy by investing over $1.3 billion through the Agriculture Department’s ReConnect Program to bring high-speed broadband infrastructure to rural America.

Achieved a record-setting economic comeback by rejecting blanket lockdowns.

• An October 2020 Gallup survey found 56 percent of Americans said they were better off during a pandemic than four years prior.
• During the third quarter of 2020, the economy grew at a rate of 33.1 percent – the most rapid GDP growth ever recorded.
• Since coronavirus lockdowns ended, the economy has added back over 12 million jobs, more than half the jobs lost.
• Jobs have been recovered 23 times faster than the previous administration’s recovery.
• Unemployment fell to 6.7 percent in December, from a pandemic peak of 14.7 percent in April – beating expectations of well over 10 percent unemployment through the end of 2020.
• Under the previous administration, it took 49 months for the unemployment rate to fall from 10 percent to under 7 percent compared to just 3 months for the Trump Administration.
• Since April, the Hispanic unemployment rate has fallen by 9.6 percent, Asian-American unemployment by 8.6 percent, and Black American unemployment by 6.8 percent.
• 80 percent of small businesses are now open, up from just 53 percent in April.
• Small business confidence hit a new high.
• Homebuilder confidence reached an all-time high, and home sales hit their highest reading since December 2006.
• Manufacturing optimism nearly doubled.
• Household net worth rose $7.4 trillion in Q2 2020 to $112 trillion, an all-time high.
  • Home prices hit an all-time record high.
  • The United States rejected crippling lockdowns that crush the economy and inflict countless public health harms and instead safely reopened its economy.
  • Business confidence is higher in America than in any other G7 or European Union country.
  • Stabilized America’s financial markets with the establishment of a number of Treasury Department supported facilities at the Federal Reserve.

• Massive Deregulation​

  Ended the regulatory assault on American Businesses and Workers.
  • Instead of 2-for-1, we eliminated 8 old regulations for every 1 new regulation adopted.
  • Provided the average American household an extra $3,100 every year.
  • Reduced the direct cost of regulatory compliance by $50 billion, and will reduce costs by an additional $50 billion in FY 2020 alone.
  • Removed nearly 25,000 pages from the Federal Register – more than any other president. The previous administration added over 16,000 pages.
  • Established the Governors’ Initiative on Regulatory Innovation to reduce outdated regulations at the state, local, and tribal levels.
  • Signed an executive order to make it easier for businesses to offer retirement plans.
  • Signed two executive orders to increase transparency in Federal agencies and protect Americans and their small businesses from administrative abuse.
  • Modernized the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for the first time in over 40 years.
  • Reduced approval times for major infrastructure projects from 10 or more years down to 2 years or less.
  • Helped community banks by signing legislation that rolled back costly provisions of Dodd-Frank.
  • Established the White House Council on Eliminating Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing to bring down housing costs.
  • Removed regulations that threatened the development of a strong and stable internet.
  • Eased and simplified restrictions on rocket launches, helping to spur commercial investment in space projects.
  • Published a whole-of-government strategy focused on ensuring American leadership in automated vehicle technology.
  • Streamlined energy efficiency regulations for American families and businesses, including preserving affordable lightbulbs, enhancing the utility of showerheads, and enabling greater time savings with dishwashers.
  • Removed unnecessary regulations that restrict the seafood industry and impede job creation.
  • Modernized the Department of Agriculture’s biotechnology regulations to put America in the lead to develop new technologies.
  • Took action to suspend regulations that would have slowed our response to COVID-19, including lifting restrictions on manufacturers to more quickly produce ventilators.
  • Successfully rolled back burdensome regulatory overreach.
    • Rescinded the previous administration’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, which would have abolished zoning for single-family housing to build low-income, federally subsidized apartments.
    • Issued a final rule on the Fair Housing Act’s disparate impact standard.
    • Eliminated the Waters of the United States Rule and replaced it with the Navigable Waters Protection Rule, providing relief and certainty for farmers and property owners.
    • Repealed the previous administration’s costly fuel economy regulations by finalizing the Safer Affordable Fuel Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles rule, which will make cars more affordable, and lower the price of new vehicles by an estimated $2,200.
  • Americans now have more money in their pockets.
    • Deregulation had an especially beneficial impact on low-income Americans who pay a much higher share of their incomes for overregulation.
    • Cut red tape in the healthcare industry, providing Americans with more affordable healthcare and saving Americans nearly 10 percent on prescription drugs.
    • Deregulatory efforts yielded savings to the medical community an estimated $6.6 billion – with a reduction of 42 million hours of regulatory compliance work through 2021.
    • Removed government barriers to personal freedom and consumer choice in healthcare.
    • Once fully in effect, 20 major deregulatory actions undertaken by the Trump Administration are expected to save American consumers and businesses over $220 billion per year.
    • Signed 16 pieces of deregulatory legislation that will result in a $40 billion increase in annual real incomes.

And much more to be found here,

Trump Administration Accomplishments – The White House

trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov

Your turn

Cherry picking your economy
Trump lost 3 million jobs

BIden added 16 million

 

[BackAgain]

Democrats stand up for the poor and working class

In words. Not in deeds.

Republicans stand up for the wealthy

Partly true. And they should. But your implicit contention is that they stand up only for the wealthy. That’s just not true.

 

[rightwinger]

In words. Not in deeds.

Partly true. And they should. But your implicit contention is that they stand up only for the wealthy. That’s just not true.

A multitude of legislation from Democrats helping the poor and working poor

Republicans are the party of the wealthy
They cut taxes on the wealthy and pay for it by cutting benefits for the poor

 

[Alicia J]

Democrats stand up for the poor and working class

Except the Democrats need to start doing a much better job of this....otherwise, people will make reckless gambles and vote on dangerous imbeciles similar to Trump again.

 

[BackAgain]

A multitude of legislation from Democrats helping the poor and working poor

Pure propaganda. And mostly very ill-considered.

Republicans are the party of the wealthy

LOL. Cling to those cartoonish old caricatures and baseless beliefs.

They cut taxes on the wealthy and pay for it by cutting benefits for the poor

Again. Simply untrue.

You’re full of silly, childish, baseless and dishonest cliches.

 

[BluesLegend]

Democrats will STAB YOU IN THE BACK at every opportunity. They throw our own country under the bus. They demonize entire genders and skin colors with blanket broad brush BS. They LIE about everything to prop up their many money scams and schemes.

Democrats are sub-humans who lack even a single redeeming quality.

 

[j-mac]

A multitude of legislation from Democrats helping the poor and working poor

Redistribution does not help anyone. It weakens a nation.

Republicans are the party of the wealthy
They cut taxes on the wealthy and pay for it by cutting benefits for the poor

That’s propaganda. Plain and simple.

But then, who’d expect anything less from you

 

[skye]

 

[Billiejeens]

The fact that you still believe this simplistic trope - that was never true - but is now far less true than ever in 2026; tells everyone all we need to know about your utter lack of critical thought and team jersey brandishing politics.

You're a child.

Yes
Also a troll

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

I saw this over on X. A good explanation about republicans and democrats.....





Cynical Publius

@CynicalPublius
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Democrats NEED to call Republicans “Nazis,” and the inverse is not true because it’s unnecessary.I’ll explain.Republicans freed the slaves. Republicans won the Civil War and magnanimously reconciled with the losing Democrats even though they did not need to. Republicans passed the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. Republicans gave women the vote. Republicans desegregated the federal workforce. Republicans ended Jim Crow. Republicans passed the Civil Rights Acts. Republicans have been zealous defenders of 1st and 2nd Amendment rights.

Against such a stellar historical track record of promoting freedom and personal liberty, Democrats NEED to call Republicans “Nazis” to obscure the truth of who the bad guys actually are.Democrats, OTOH, built a party based almost exclusively on slavery and racism.

Democrats initiated and fought a bloody Civil War that killed ~700,000 Americans. Democrats instituted Jim Crow. Democrats popularized lynching. Democrats opposed the post-Civil War Amendments and all of the Civil Rights Acts. Democrats denied the vote to women. Democrats re-segregated the federal work force. Democrats invented and staffed the KKK. Democrats have always fought for a racialized society. Democrats re-racialized society in the 21st Century. Democrats invented abortion as a tool of eugenics. Democrats killed ~66,000,000 babies since 1973 thanks to Roe v. Wade. Democrats hate the 2nd Amendment. Democrats hate the 1st Amendment when free speech, freedom of assembly or freedom of religion challenge them. Democrats have embraced Marxism and jihad.Republicans do not need to call Democrats “Nazis” because calling them “Democrats” is horrific enough.Explained.

Republicans => 40+ years of failed policy implementations. A just and righteous belief in sky fairies that everyone from the six on the SC to the unwashed masses in the heartland.... A mass of slaves that have been cucks to a wannabe dictator and grifting shaman since he removed his second foot from the golden escalator in 2015.

Democrats => Mean well. Heart in the right place. But caught between no man's land of old guard..who can't seem to release their..."appendages" from their grasp because they believe the high road is the best (HOW BOUT NO!!) road..and the new guard, who want to "kill em all' and take no prisoners.

I say, let the new guard take on the Alt-Right. They will eviscerate them.

 

[Billiejeens]

There's no difference. It's a duopoly

The two party system is a clown act

Idiotic response.

 

[skye]

 

[skye]

 

[Chuz Life]

There's no difference. It's a duopoly

The two party system is a clown act

In some respects, I can agree with that.

But it doesn't explain why the leftardz keep trying to assassinate Trump.

 

[JWBooth]

The differences are stark and intense, as depicted here:

 

[JWBooth]